You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIgnorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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