God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFour things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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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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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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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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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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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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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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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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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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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Time discovers truth.
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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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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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