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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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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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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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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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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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