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Seneca the Younger on New Year

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It is best to bear what cannot be changed.

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.

All things are to be hoped by a man as long as he is alive.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

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.

It is to this law that our souls must adjust themselves, this they should follow, this they should obey. Whatever happens, assume that it was bound to happen, and do not be willing to rail at Nature. That which you cannot reform, it is best to endure, and to attend uncomplainingly upon the God under whose guidance everything progresses; for it is a bad soldier who grumbles when following his commander.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Seneca the Younger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.