The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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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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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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If you judge, investigate.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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