Seneca Quotes
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It 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. - I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one. - Not to return a benefit is a great sin; but not to confer one is a greater.
[Beneficence]
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are, in a manner, brought together.
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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It is foolish to strive with what we cannot avoid; we are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty; he that does this, shall be free, safe, and quiet; all his actions shall succeed to his wishes.
[Liberty]
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It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
[Motivation]
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
[Risks]
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It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.
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It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
[Risks]
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It is not the incense, or the offering which is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshiper.
[Motives]
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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It is often better not to see an insult, than to avenge it.
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It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business ; and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.
[Poverty]
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes terrible that misfortune, which by premeditation might be made easy to us; for what some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
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It is safer to affront some people than to oblige them; for the better a man deserves, the worse they will speak of him; as if the professing of open hatred to their benefactors were an argument that they lie under no obligation to him.
[Obligation]
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It is the bounty of nature that we live, but of philosophy that we live well; which is, in truth, a greater benefit than life itself.
[Life]
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