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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTime hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Time discovers truth.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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