Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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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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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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After death there is nothing.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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