It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWatch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Every journey has an end.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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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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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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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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