A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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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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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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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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His head was turned by too great success.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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