It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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It 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.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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His head was turned by too great success.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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