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There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.

Seneca the Younger

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Seneca the Younger
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Philosopher
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Córdoba
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger
the Younger Seneca
Lucio Anneo Seneca
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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
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Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.
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A good mind possesses a kingdom.
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Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
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Men trust their eyes rather than their ears the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
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We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. True happiness is ... to enjoy the present It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.
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All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.
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The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
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Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
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