Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREvery journey has an end.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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