He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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