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 had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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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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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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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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