Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 2

• As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.

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  Mother, Soul, Looks

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• All cruelty springs from weakness.

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  Spring, Philosophical, Animal

  "On the Happy Life". Essay by Seneca the Younger (58 AD); later published in Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners", p. 174 (in the essay "The Sympathetic Temperment"), 1863.

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• It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.

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  Too Late, Never Too Late, Late

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• What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

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• The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

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  Inspirational, Fear, Motivation

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• God is near you, is with you, is inside you.

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  Love

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• While we are postponing, life speeds by.

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  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

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  Life, Happiness, People

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• The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

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  Matter, Bears, Things That Matter

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• We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

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  Life, Procrastination, Acting

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• There exists no more difficult art than living.

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  Art, Difficult

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• Find a path or make one.

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  Path

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• There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.

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  Investing, Changed, Situation

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• Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

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  Time, Time Heals, Reason

  Agamemnon 130

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• Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

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  Adversity, Men, Fire

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• It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.

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  Errors, Too Late, Way

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• The best cure for anger is delay.

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  Wisdom, Delay, Cures

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• No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

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  Character, Long, Lapses

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• Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

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  Favour, Speak, Silent

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• If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

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  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

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  Men, Wind, Goal

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• The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today

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  Today, Waste, Tomorrow

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• It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

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  Encouragement, Choices, Easy

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• A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

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  Fear, Men, Play

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• The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company

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  Men, Mind, Ability

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