Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREpicurus 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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