True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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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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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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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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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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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