What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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