There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSet 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?”
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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If you judge, investigate.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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