It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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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To the stars through difficulties.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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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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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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