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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho timidly requests invites refusal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who is brave is free.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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