Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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