Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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