While we are postponing, life speeds by.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrecepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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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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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Set 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?”
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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