"When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation."
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Seneca the Younger quotes (page 55 of 57)
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"Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us."
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"Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride"
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"It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start."
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"It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one."
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"Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)"
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"We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself."
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"Those griefs burn most which gall in secret."
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"There is no evil without its compensation."
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"The world itself is too small for the covetous."
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"The more violent the storm the sooner it is over."
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"The anger of those in authority is always weighty."
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"Successful villany is called virtue."
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"Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness."
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"So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow."
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"Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb."
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"Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it."
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"Light is that grief which counsel can allay."
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"Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb."
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"He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it."
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