Who timidly requests invites refusal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDemand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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