Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you wish to be loved, love.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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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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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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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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