I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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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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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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One hand washes the other.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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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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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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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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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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