If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLeisure without literature is death and burial alive.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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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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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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