It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERChoose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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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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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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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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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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