It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAll my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Time discovers truth.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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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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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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