The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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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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If you wish to be loved, love.
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He who is brave is free.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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