Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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He 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.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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