For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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