A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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His head was turned by too great success.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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If you judge, investigate.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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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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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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