What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Men learn while they teach.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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