Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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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 wish to be loved, love.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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One hand washes the other.
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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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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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