Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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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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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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