Seneca the Younger quotes
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“Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.”
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“Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.”
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“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.”
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“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult”
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“We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.”
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“Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.”
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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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“Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)”
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“There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”
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“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.”
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“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”
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“He who is everywhere is nowhere.”
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“Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.”
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“Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.”
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“...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.”
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“The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.”
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“A troubled countenance oft discloses much.”
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“We learn not for life but for the debating-room.”
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“Life without the courage for death is slavery.”
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“A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.”
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“Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.”
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“Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.”
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“The profit on a good action is to have done it.”
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“Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.”
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“Apples taste sweetest when they're going.”
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