Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGERVice may be learnt, even without a teacher
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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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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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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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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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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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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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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