Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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After death there is nothing.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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One hand washes the other.
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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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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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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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