Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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