Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREnjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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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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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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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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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Whatever 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.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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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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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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