After death there is nothing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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