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!
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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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 is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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