Life is long if you know how to use it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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If you judge, investigate.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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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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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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