Every journey has an end.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBegin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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