There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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One hand washes the other.
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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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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Men learn while they teach.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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