Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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 language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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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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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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