That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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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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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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