Injustice never rules forever.
SENECA THE YOUNGERJust 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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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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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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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.
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