Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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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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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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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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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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