Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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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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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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