After death there is nothing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIn the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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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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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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