That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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