The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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