The expression of truth is simplicity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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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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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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