The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGERRevenge is an inhuman word.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Time discovers truth.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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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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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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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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