We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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He who is brave is free.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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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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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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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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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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