We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhen once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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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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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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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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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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