A thousand approaches lie open to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe young man must store up, the old man must use.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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