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When prizes go to the wicked it is hard for any man to be good without reward.


Lucius Marcius Philippus

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SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [Lat., Unicumque homo est...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) For I do not distinguish them by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
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SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy. [Lat., Ars prima regni posse te invidiam...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. [Lat., Ser...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
CATILINE (LUCIUS SERGIUS CATILINA) A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The whole discord of this world consists in discords. [Lat., Tota hujus mundi concordia ex discord...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort. [Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est tur...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) [Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) No possession is gratifying without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. [Lat., Q...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, ...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat....
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Whatever begins, also ends. [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He who begs timidly courts a refusal. [Lat., Qui timide rogat, Docet negare.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigun...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will. [Lat., Haud est nocens, quicumque non spo...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command. [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Revenge is an inhuman word. [Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumu...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness. [Lat., Quantum caliginis mentibu...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda ...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment. [Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Whom they have injured they also hate. [Lat., Quos laeserunt et oderunt.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The voice is nothing but beaten air. [Lat., Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Every monarch is subject to a mightier one. [Lat., Omnes sub regno graviore regnum est.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity. [Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu v...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Poison is drunk out of gold. [Lat., Venenum in auro bibitur.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) They laboriously do nothing. [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? [Lat., Q...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium si...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insa...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare qu...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) That grief is light which can take counsel. [Lat., Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. [Lat., Quam angusta inn...
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