Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERChoose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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After death there is nothing.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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