Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROne 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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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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