I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBegin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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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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Every journey has an end.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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