Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAfter death there is nothing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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After death there is nothing.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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