On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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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 is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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