There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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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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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Men learn while they teach.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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