If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIts harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Men learn while they teach.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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