Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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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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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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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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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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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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