People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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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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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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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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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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