You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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After death there is nothing.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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