Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhile we are postponing, life speeds by.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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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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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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