The expression of truth is simplicity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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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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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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