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 YOUNGERProsperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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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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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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