Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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