The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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