I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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