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Seneca the Younger on Birthday

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No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdom.

Every pleasure defers to its last its greatest delights.

Nothing is more dishonourable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age.

An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.

In the great inconstancy and crowd of events, nothing is certain except the past.

No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

An old man in his rudiments is a disgraceful object. It is for youth to acquire, and for age to apply.

The swift hour flies on double wings.

Infinita est velocitas temporis quæ magis apparet respicientibus.
The swiftness of time is infinite, which is still more evident to those who look back upon the past.

Friendship is always helpful, but love sometimes even does harm

Old age is an incurable disease.

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