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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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Quotes By author - Starting with L - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
Subject:
Honesty
Conscience
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Subject:
Friendship
Judgment
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See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Subject:
Wealth
Poverty
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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
Subject:
Silence
Speech
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Subject:
Reality
Fear
Harmful
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Subject:
Charity
Parable
Compassion
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Subject:
Mankind
Kindness
Human Nature
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
Subject:
Happiness
Life
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One should count each day a separate life.
Subject:
Life
Gratitude
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Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.
Subject:
Arrogance
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