It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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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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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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After death there is nothing.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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