Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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After death there is nothing.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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