It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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