We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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He who is brave is free.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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