One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Every journey has an end.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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