I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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