Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccess is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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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.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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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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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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What 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.
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