Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREpileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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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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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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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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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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