May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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