A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
