True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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