To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLeisure without literature is death and burial alive.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of 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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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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