If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Luck never made a man wise.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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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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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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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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