On benefits
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Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Book Description: The second volume of Seneca's moral letters to Lucilius. Each letter contains Seneca's advice and wisdom won from a life of Roman politics.
24.
Evil men have but one pleasure in benefits, and a very short-lived pleasure at that; it lasts only while they are receiving them.
But the wise man derives therefrom an abiding and eternal joy.
For he takes delight not so much in receiving the gift as in having received it; and this joy never perishes; it abides with him always.
He despises the wrongs done him; he forgets them, not accidentally, but voluntarily.
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On benefits
Location: Chapter 81, Section 24
Content:
24.
Evil men have but one pleasure in benefits, and a very short-lived pleasure at that; it lasts only while they are receiving them.
But the wise man derives therefrom an abiding and eternal joy.
For he takes delight not so much in receiving the gift as in having received it; and this joy never perishes; it abides with him always.
He despises the wrongs done him; he forgets them, not accidentally, but voluntarily.