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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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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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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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