This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Every journey has an end.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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