Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccess is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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He who is brave is free.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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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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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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