It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLife is long if you know how to use it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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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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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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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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To the stars through difficulties.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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