If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
SENECA THE YOUNGERShall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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