People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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