If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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