What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIgnorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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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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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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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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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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