You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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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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After death there is nothing.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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