He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat 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?
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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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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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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