Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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If you wish to be loved, love.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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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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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Time discovers truth.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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