It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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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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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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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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