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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDemand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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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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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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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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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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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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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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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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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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