Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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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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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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