Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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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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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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