You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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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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Injustice never rules forever.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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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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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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