God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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