He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Life without literary studies is death.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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