Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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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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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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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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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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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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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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