To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSet 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?”
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Men learn while they teach.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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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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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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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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One hand washes the other.
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