You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
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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 abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is with life as with a playit matters not how long the action is spun out, but how good the acting is.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There can be slain No sacrifice to God more acceptable Than an unjust and wicked king.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Happy the man who can endure the highest And the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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