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 YOUNGERGod is near you, is with you, is inside you.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Every journey has an end.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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