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?
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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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.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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He who is brave is free.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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