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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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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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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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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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Injustice never rules forever.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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