It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
SENECA THE YOUNGERReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Time discovers truth.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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