No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSet 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?”
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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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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Men learn while they teach.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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After death there is nothing.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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