It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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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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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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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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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Time discovers truth.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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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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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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