The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhy do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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