Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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