It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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He who is brave is free.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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