The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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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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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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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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