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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca the Younger
Life, Success, Money

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Sight, Blood

It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Evil, Company

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Life, Play

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Live Life, Tedious
"Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", XXIII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Life, Wise
"Epistolæ Ad Lucilium" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82., 1922.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Fate, Years

The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Wise, Men

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Sweet, Poison
"Hippolytus", CXXXIV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 464-484), 1922.

The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Wise, Simple

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Journey, Ads

True love hates and will not bear delay.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Hate, Delay

We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Men, Different

The part of life which we really live is short.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Short Life, Parts Of Life
"De Brevitate Vitae" by Seneca the Younger, II, 49 AD.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Anger, Suicidal

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Death, Should

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Wisdom, Color
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

Seneca the Younger
Life, Men, Literature

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Men, Wind

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Long, Use

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Blessing, Live Well

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Haste, Each Day

If you wish to be loved, love.

Seneca the Younger
Love, Life, Latin

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