It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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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’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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If you judge, investigate.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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