Revenge is an inhuman word.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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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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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Men learn while they teach.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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