If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur words should aim not to please, but to help.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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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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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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