Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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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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Men learn while they teach.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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