There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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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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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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