Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I 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.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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