It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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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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One hand washes the other.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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After death there is nothing.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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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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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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