Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNot how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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