After death there is nothing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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