This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAssociate with people who are likely to improve you.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Men learn while they teach.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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