It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFreedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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