So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAll 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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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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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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