While we are postponing, life speeds by.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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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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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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