Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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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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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Life without literary studies is death.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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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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