It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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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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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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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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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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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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