What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhen one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Injustice never rules forever.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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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.
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