So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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One hand washes the other.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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