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?”
SENECA THE YOUNGEREvery new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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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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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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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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