True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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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 language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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