The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
SENECA THE YOUNGERRevenge is an inhuman word.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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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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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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