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 YOUNGERThere is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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After death there is nothing.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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