There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Men learn while they teach.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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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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