A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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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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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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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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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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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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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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