He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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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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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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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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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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