Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
SENECA THE YOUNGERConversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Injustice never rules forever.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Time discovers truth.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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