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?
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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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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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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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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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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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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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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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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