He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of 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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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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