People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo live is not a blessing, but to live well.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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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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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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One hand washes the other.
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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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