Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccess is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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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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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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