Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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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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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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