To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
SENECA THE YOUNGERIgnorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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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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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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