Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBelieve me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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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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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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