This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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If you judge, investigate.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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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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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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