He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.


Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
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If you would judge, understand.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
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Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
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Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.
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The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.
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He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own re...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or re...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enem...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking per...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
All art is an imitation of nature.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than rea...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sk...
SENECA
Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
SENECA
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SENECA
Suppose we've chosen the wrong god
SENECA
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
SENECA
Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers
SENECA
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
SENECA
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
SENECA
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
SENECA
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars
SENECA
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
SENECA
It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past
SENECA
One hand washes the other.
(Manus Manum Lavat)
SENECA
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse our...
SENECA
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
SENECA
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
SENECA
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness
SENECA