Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERVirtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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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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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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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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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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