Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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