Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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