How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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