Time discovers truth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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After death there is nothing.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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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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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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