“He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.”
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Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.”
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”
“Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.”
“We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.”
“A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.”
“You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.”
“Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.”
“May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.”
“Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.”
“Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.”
“Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.”
“A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary”
“Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.”
“A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.”
“It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.”
“It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.”
“The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.”
“No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.”