The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLight is that grief which counsel can allay.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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