To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROne must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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 the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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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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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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