That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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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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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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