Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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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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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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