If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Every journey has an end.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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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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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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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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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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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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