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- One should count each day a separate life.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Letters to Lucilius, 100 A.D.
- 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 (5 BC - 65 AD)
- It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- 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.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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