Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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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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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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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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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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