Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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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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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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