What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
SENECA THE YOUNGERInjustice never rules forever.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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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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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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