If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGod is near you, is with you, is inside you.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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The 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.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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