Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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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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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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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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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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