Hardship and Happiness (Ad Marciam De consolatione, Ad Helviam matrem De consolatione, De Consolatione ad Polybium, De Brevitate Vitæ, De Constantia Sapientis, De Tranquillitate Animi, De Otio, De Vita Beata, De Providentia)

by Seneca

But you never thought fit to look on yourself or to listen to yourself. And so you’ve no reason to expect a return from anyone for those attentions of yours, since you offered them not because you wanted another’s company but because you were incapable of communing with yourself.