The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPersistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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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 shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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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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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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