Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBegin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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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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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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