There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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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 is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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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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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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