I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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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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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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