It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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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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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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