One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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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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Life without literary studies is death.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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