He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is no genius without a mixture of madness.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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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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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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