The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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