It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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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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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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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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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 by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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