No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNobody becomes guilty by fate.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Time discovers truth.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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