Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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