It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFor men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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He who is brave is free.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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