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?
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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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 point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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