If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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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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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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