Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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He who is brave is free.
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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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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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