This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTime hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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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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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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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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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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