We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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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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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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