Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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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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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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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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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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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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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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