We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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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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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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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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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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