Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
SENECA THE YOUNGERIn whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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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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Every journey has an end.
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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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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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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.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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