The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath is a release from and an end of all pains.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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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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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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