Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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One hand washes the other.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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