What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Time discovers truth.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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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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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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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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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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