I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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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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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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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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