Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Time discovers truth.
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