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 YOUNGERLeisure without literature is death and burial alive.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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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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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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