The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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