There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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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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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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