Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccessful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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