One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Every journey has an end.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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One hand washes the other.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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