A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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One hand washes the other.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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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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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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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 Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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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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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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