The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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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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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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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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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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