Inspirational quotes and pithy anecdotes plague the social networks but there is nothing new about them.
If the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65) were blogging, tweeting and posting today he would have a legion of followers enthusing over words of wisdom ike these:
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“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that things are difficult”.
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“Our lives are either spent on doing nothing at all or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do”.
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“We are always complaining that our days are
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“To err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabiolical”
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“The whole future lies in uncertainty : live immeduately”
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“Life is amply long for he who lives it properly”.
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“Postponement is the greatest waste of life”
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“It is better to have knowledge of the ledger of one’s own life than of the corn market”.
All quotes taken from : On The Shortness Of Life & other life lessons for the 21st Century (translated by John W. Basore, 1932)
