Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
SENECA THE YOUNGERTrue happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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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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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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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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