Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREpicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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