It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERMay be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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