The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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