Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.
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Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
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The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.
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Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
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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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The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
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There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
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Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.
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Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .
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No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.
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We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.
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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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Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Expediency often silences justice.
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Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
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The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.