Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA thousand approaches lie open to death.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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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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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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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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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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