Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo live is not a blessing, but to live well.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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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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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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