Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
SENECA THE YOUNGERConversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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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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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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