He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhy do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Every journey has an end.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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