Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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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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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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