One should count each day a separate life.

More quotations from Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

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