What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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One hand washes the other.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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