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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Journey, Ads

No one can wear a mask for very long.

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Long, Wearing A Mask, Mask

Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

Seneca the Younger
Grief, Men, Weight

The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.

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Giving, Creditors, Stomach

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

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Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

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Travel, Ties, Hospitality

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

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Satisfaction, Companion
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 690-91, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, VI, 1922.

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

Seneca the Younger
Long, Secrecy, Concealment
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 695-96, Oedipus, 826, 1922.

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

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Understanding, Whole

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

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Plato, Philosophy, Science

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

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Brotherhood, May, Common

People do not die - they kill themselves.

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Philosophy, People, Dies

Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.

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Loyalty, Military, Heart

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

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Work, Joyful, Fortune

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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War, Law, Liberty

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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Death, Mean, Blessing

There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.

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Wind, Knows, Fairs

The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?

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Satisfaction, Kind, Speak
Letter 7, translated by Robin Campbell,

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

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Needs, May, Helping
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.

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Men, Return, He Man

While you teach, you learn.

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Inspirational, Teach

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

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Inspirational, Wind, Sailing

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

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Sad, Men, Doe

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

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Teacher, Pilots, Sail

Whom they have injured they also hate.

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Hate, Injured
"On Anger". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 45 AD.

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