What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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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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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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