Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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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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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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