This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe young man must store up, the old man must use.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Time discovers truth.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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One 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.
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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 man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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