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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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He who is brave is free.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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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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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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