They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
SENECA THE YOUNGERMen 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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