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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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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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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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