Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
SENECA THE YOUNGERIn every good man a God doth dwell.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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