Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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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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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Every journey has an end.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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