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 YOUNGERThe language of truth is unvarnished enough.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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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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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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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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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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