Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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One hand washes the other.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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