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Seneca Quotes

«Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity»
Author: Seneca | About: Adversity | Keywords: Behold the Man, contest, matched
«This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what he has given, and the other ought to never forget what he has received»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: benefits
«He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another»
Author: Seneca | About: Ancestry | Keywords: ancestry, boasts, merits, praises
«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»
Author: Seneca | About: Gifts, Spirit | Keywords: acknowledged, debt, face value, intention, weighed
«The first art of a monarch is the power to endure hatred»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: monarch, monarchs, the Monarch
«No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.»
«Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.»
«All cruelty springs from weakness.»
Author: Seneca
«Slavery holds few men fast; the greatest number hold fast their slavery»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: hold fast
«No one finds his proficiency in a study just where he dropped it»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: proficiency