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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFour things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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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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Life without literary studies is death.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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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 by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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