Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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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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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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