Successful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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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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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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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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