You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIn whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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