The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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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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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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