Quotes Seneca the Younger - page 6
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Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.
True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
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!
You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
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Love of action is not industry.
