That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThey lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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He who is brave is free.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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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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