Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe 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!
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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