It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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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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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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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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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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One hand washes the other.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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