The young man must store up, the old man must use.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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