Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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If you judge, investigate.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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