Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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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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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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