People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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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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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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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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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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