The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you wish to be loved, love.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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