Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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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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.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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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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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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