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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERChoose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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