It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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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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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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