Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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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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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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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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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Death 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.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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After death there is nothing.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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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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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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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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