It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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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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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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