They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhile we are postponing, life speeds by.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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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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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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