The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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