There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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After death there is nothing.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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