Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhy will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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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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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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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 wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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