What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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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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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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