It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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After death there is nothing.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Every journey has an end.
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