The expression of truth is simplicity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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