We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGERShall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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