Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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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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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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