Seneca
Literature
Red
Jacket
Great Seneca Orator
Quotes by Red Jacket:
"Know
that we are eager to share our gifts, in the name of love.
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the dumb can understand.
It is
another's fault if he be ungrateful;
but it is mine if I do not give.
There is
none more abusive to others
than they that lie most open to themselves.
The good
things of prosperity are to be wished;
but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Nothing
is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes.
What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
What
madness it is for a man to starve himself
to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy!
For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
A
well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty.
All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.
Difficulties
strengthen the mind as labor does the body.
Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.
There is
as much greatness of mind
in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Money
does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest
as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives
better wages, they soon change their party.
That
which is given with pride and ostentation
is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Most
powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
The sun also shines on the wicked.
Other
men's sins are before our eyes;
our own are behind our backs.
No
action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so,
for by the will the act was dictated.
It is
proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
Every guilty person is his own hangman."
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