It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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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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Death 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.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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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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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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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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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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