To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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