One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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If you judge, investigate.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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