Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Ignorant 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.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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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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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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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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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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