Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPoverty needs much, avarice everything.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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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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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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One hand washes the other.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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