If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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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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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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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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Life without literary studies is death.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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