Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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One hand washes the other.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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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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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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