This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Every journey has an end.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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