If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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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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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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It’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.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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