Seneca Quotes
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration, but temper and moderation generally produce permanence in all things.
Our plans miscarry if they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: "Is this the condition that I feared?"
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.
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