Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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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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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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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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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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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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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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