Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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