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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAssociate with people who are likely to improve you.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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