The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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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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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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