It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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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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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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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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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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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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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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