It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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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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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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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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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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