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 YOUNGERHardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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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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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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