It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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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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The part of life which we really live is short.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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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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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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