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?
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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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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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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