After death there is nothing.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur words should aim not to please, but to help.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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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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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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