He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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One hand washes the other.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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