I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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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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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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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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One hand washes the other.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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