There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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