We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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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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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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