Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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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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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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