Injustice never rules forever.
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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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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One hand washes the other.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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