Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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