Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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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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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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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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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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