True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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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.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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