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Good Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
- He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of…
- A good mind possesses a kingdom.
- Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
- 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…
- A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
- You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
- Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
- We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that…
- Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of…
- Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than…
- Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot:…
- We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright…
- There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.
- Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.
- In every good man a God doth dwell.
- It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
- It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but…
- A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
- I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.
- I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.
- The profit on a good action is to have done it.
- The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.
- Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be…
- Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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