Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGo on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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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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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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