A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPeople do not die – they kill themselves.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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