Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhen once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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