It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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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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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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