There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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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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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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