We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Every journey has an end.
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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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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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