What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGERVirtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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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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