Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
SENECA THE YOUNGERReasons 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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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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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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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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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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