You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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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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