A thousand approaches lie open to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Men learn while they teach.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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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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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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