As long as you live, learn how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTrue joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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