But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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If you judge, investigate.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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