The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROn him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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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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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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