Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGERLeisure without literature is death and burial alive.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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