One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhile crime is punished it yet increases.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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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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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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