It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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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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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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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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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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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.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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