So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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One hand washes the other.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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