After death there is nothing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe world itself is too small for the covetous.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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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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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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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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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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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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