Life is long if you know how to use it.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROne hand washes the other.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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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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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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