There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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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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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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If you judge, investigate.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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