It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAll art is but imitation of nature.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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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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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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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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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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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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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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