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 YOUNGERSuch 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Every journey has an end.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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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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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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