Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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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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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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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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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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