For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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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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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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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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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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