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1. "For it is dangerous to attach one's self to the crowd in front, and so long as each one of us is more willing to trust another than to judge for himself, we never show any judgement in the matter of living, but always a blind trust, and a mistake that has been passed on from hand to hand finally involves us and works our destruction. It is the example of other people that is our undoing; let us merely separate ourselves from the crowd, and we shall be made whole. But as it is, the populace,, defending its own iniquity, pits itself against reason. And so we see the same thing happening that happens at the elections, where, when the fickle breeze of popular favour has shifted, the very same persons who chose the praetors wonder that those praetors were chosen." ~ Seneca
2. "It is quality rather than quantity that matters." ~ Seneca
3. "When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends." ~ Seneca
4. "Most powerful is he who has himself in his power." ~ Seneca
5. "The best ideas are common property" ~ Seneca
6. "What mancan you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he isdying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed,Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands." ~ Seneca
7. "Qui mori didicit servire dedidicit." ~ Seneca
8. "Nije da se ne usudujemo zato što su stvari teške; vec su stvari teške zato što se ne usudujemo." ~ Seneca
9. "Philosophy is good advice; and no one can give advice at the top of his lungs." ~ Seneca
10. "A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient; nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient; and looking upon them only as sick and extravagant." ~ Seneca
11. "Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal." ~ Seneca
12. "No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss; nothing, however, is lost with less discomfort than that which, when lost, cannot be missed." ~ Seneca
13. "Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor." ~ Seneca
14. "Men do not care how nobly they live, but only for how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long." ~ Seneca
15. "Puisque le destin n'est que la succession des causes enchaînées l'une à l'autre, Dieu est la première de toutes les causes, d'où les autres découlent" ~ Seneca
16. "Life is slavery if the courage to die is absent." ~ Seneca
17. "Whatever can happen at any time can happen today." ~ Seneca
18. "Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything." ~ Seneca
19. "Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life." ~ Seneca
20. "...effer arma;vincatur mea fortuna dextra.(...bring me my arms;by my right hand let fate be vanquished.)" ~ Seneca
21. "Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you'll be able to use them better when you're older." ~ Seneca
22. "To wish to be well is a part of becoming well." ~ Seneca
23. "We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift." ~ Seneca
24. "What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?" ~ Seneca
25. "Lat, urbes constituit aetas: hora dissolvit: momento fit cinis: diu sylva. An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing." ~ Seneca
26. "No prizefighter can go with high spirits into the strife if he has never been beaten black and blue; the only contestant who can confidently enter the lists is the man who has seen his own blood, who has felt his teeth rattle beneath his opponent's fist, who has been tripped and felt the full force of his adversary's charge, who has been downed in bloody but not it spirit, one who as often as he falls, rises again with greater defiance than ever." ~ Seneca
27. "The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it." ~ Seneca
28. "Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today." ~ Seneca
29. "Love of bustle is not industry." ~ Seneca
30. "Life, if you know how to use it, is long; but…many, following no fixed aim, shifting and… dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course." ~ Seneca
31. "We are indeed apt to ascribe certain faults to the place or to the time; but those faults will follow us, no matter how we change our place." ~ Seneca
32. "Soft living imposes on us the penalty of debility; we cease to be able to do the things we've long been grudging about doing." ~ Seneca
33. "I am loath to call clemency what was, rather, the exhaustion of cruelty." ~ Seneca
34. "An unpopular rule is never long maintained." ~ Seneca
35. "No es que dispongamos de poco tiempo, es más bien que perdemos mucho." ~ Seneca
36. "The boon that could be given can be withdrawn." ~ Seneca
37. "For fate the willing leads, the unwilling drags along." ~ Seneca
38. "det ille veniam facile, cui venia est opus - the one who needs pardon should readily grant it" ~ Seneca
39. "Nessun vento è favorevole per il marinaio che non sa a quale porto vuole approdare." ~ Seneca
40. "And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name." ~ Seneca
41. "The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time." ~ Seneca
42. "Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things—eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies—since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn." ~ Seneca
43. "I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness." ~ Seneca
44. "I am not a ‘wise man,' nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes." ~ Seneca
45. "It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable." ~ Seneca
46. "Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk" ~ Seneca
47. "If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship." ~ Seneca
48. "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." ~ Seneca
49. "All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of the prayers that have turned out well we must make still other prayers. For everything that comes to us from chance is unstable, and the higher it rises, the more liable it is to fall. Moreover, what is doomed to perish brings pleasure to no one; very wretched, therefore, and not merely short, must the life of those be who work hard to gain what they must work harder to keep. By great toil they attain what they wish, and with anxiety hold what they have attained; meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return." ~ Seneca
50. "the more a mind takes in the more it expands." ~ Seneca
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The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now."
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