To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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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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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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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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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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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 road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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