The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
SENECA THE YOUNGERMay be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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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.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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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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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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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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He who is brave is free.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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