Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNot how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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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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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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