Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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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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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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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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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Time discovers truth.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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