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 YOUNGERTo forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Every journey has an end.
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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 had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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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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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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