What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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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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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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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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