People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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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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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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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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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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