It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFor many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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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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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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