Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhen one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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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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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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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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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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