Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you judge, investigate.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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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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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Every journey has an end.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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