Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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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.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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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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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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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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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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