He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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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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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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