Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
SENECA THE YOUNGERI am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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