Successful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThey lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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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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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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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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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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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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