If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
SENECA THE YOUNGERReasons 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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