Daily Quotes — Bellazon

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Seneca - "You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed.

"One tree by itself never calls for admiration when the whole forest rises to the same height." - Seneca

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"All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral-both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you"

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.""

" Do not dream of possession of what you do not have: rather reflect on the greatest blessings in what you do have, and on their account remind yourself how much they would have been missed if they were not there."

Marcus Aurelius

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#243

"Show me a man who isn’t a slave; one is a slave to sex, another to money, another to ambition; all are slaves to hope or fear. I could show you a man who has been a Consul who is a slave to his ‘little old woman’, a millionaire who is the slave of a little girl in domestic service." - Seneca

"Yet the greatest waste of life lies in postponement: it robs us of each day in turn, and snatches away the present by promising the future. The greatest impediment to living is expectancy, which relies on tomorrow and wastes today." -Seneca

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#244

"Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute."

"Man’s ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he was born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy – that he live in accordance with his own nature."

""If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail."

“The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.” Seneca

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#245

"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."

"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."

"Every guilty person is his own hangman."

"Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind."

"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."

"Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody."

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#246

"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."

"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat."

"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."