Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Time discovers truth.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Epicurus 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.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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