Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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