People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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