Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFreedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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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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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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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!
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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