Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBegin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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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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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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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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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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