There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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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 foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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