A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThis body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Every journey has an end.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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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 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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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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