When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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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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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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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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Every journey has an end.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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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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