Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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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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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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