Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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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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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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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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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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