Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrecepts 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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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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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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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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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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