The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhy 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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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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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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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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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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