Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAfter death there is nothing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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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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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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