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.
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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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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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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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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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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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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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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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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