We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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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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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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