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!
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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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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If you judge, investigate.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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