Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERVirtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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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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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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He 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.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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