Where fear is, happiness is not.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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