Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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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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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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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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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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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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