For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA thousand approaches lie open to death.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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