Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREvery new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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