What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
SENECA THE YOUNGERThis body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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After death there is nothing.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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It’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.
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Every journey has an end.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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