While crime is punished it yet increases.
SENECA THE YOUNGERUnblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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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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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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