No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose griefs burn most which gall in secret.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Time discovers truth.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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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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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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