Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrecepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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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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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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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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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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