Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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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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It 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.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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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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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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