Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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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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No crime has been without a precedent.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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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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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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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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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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