He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhile crime is punished it yet increases.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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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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After death there is nothing.
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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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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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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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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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