There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNot how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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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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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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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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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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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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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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