Seneca the Younger on Christmas
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Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
True love hates and will not bear delay.
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
For love of bustle is not industry – it is only the restlessness of a hunted mind.
Better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all. (Free translation).
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
Friendship is always helpful, but love sometimes even does harm
No man can suffer both severely and for a long time; Nature, who loves us most tenderly, has so constituted us as to make pain either endurable or short.
The one loves to do good, the other to do harm; the one to help even strangers, the other to attack even its dearest friends.
Mankind is born for mutual assistance, anger for mutual ruin: the former loves society, the latter estrangement.
If you wish to be loved, love.
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