Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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