There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHuman society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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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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He who is brave is free.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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