Seneca quotes - page 10

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse. (Seneca)
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin. View quote
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If you judge, investigate. View quote
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Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb. View quote
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense. View quote
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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes. View quote
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute. View quote
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One crime has to be concealed by another. View quote
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. View quote
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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned. View quote
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live. (Seneca)
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. View quote
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. View quote
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. View quote
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While we are postponing life speeds up. View quote
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. View quote
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. View quote
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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. View quote
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm. View quote
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. View quote
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Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law. (Seneca)
He [Hercules] will find a way - or make one. View quote
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Arms observe no bounds; nor can the wrath of the sword, once drawn, be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood. View quote
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Who can be forced has not learned how to die. View quote
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He who, when he may, forbids not sin, commands it. View quote
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