There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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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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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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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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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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