Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTrue happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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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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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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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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