He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNot how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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