It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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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If you wish to be loved, love.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Time discovers truth.
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