If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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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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Successful villany is called virtue.
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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 as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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