What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose griefs burn most which gall in secret.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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