It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over 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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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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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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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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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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One hand washes the other.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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He who is brave is free.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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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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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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