Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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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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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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You 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?
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