It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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