One hand washes the other.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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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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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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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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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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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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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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