Seneca the Younger Quotes About Today
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There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
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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.
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The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
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Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
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All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.
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Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
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Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
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