What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGERAuditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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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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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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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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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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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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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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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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