The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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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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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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