People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is no genius without a mixture of madness.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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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 what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Every journey has an end.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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