There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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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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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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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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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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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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