Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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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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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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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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Time discovers truth.
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