I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe language of truth is unvarnished enough.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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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 that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Time discovers truth.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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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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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 dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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