We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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 persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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