That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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It 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.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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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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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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