True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIgnorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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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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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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I 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.
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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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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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