No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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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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