There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROn him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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We 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!
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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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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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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One hand washes the other.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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