There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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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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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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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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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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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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