The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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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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