Seneca quotes - page 23

Death is sometimes a punishment, sometimes a gift to many it has come as a favor. (Seneca)
One should count each day a separate life. View quote
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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure, if you know how to use it. The gradually (I do not say rapidly) declining years are amongst the sweetest in a mans life and, I maintain, that even where they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still. View quote
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself Miserable is he who slights that witness. View quote
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit. View quote
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. View quote
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Mere life is not a blessing, but to live well. View quote
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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly intertwined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity. View quote
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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well. View quote
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The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can. View quote
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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage. (Seneca)
You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know. View quote
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. View quote
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself. View quote
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The fortunes of war are always doubtful. View quote
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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. View quote
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Calamity is virtue's opportunity. View quote
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It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know. View quote
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Love in its essence is spiritual fire. View quote
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There is no power greater than true affection. View quote
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Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all plate is no more than earthenware. (Seneca)
A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. View quote
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling. View quote
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What once were vices are manners now. View quote
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In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul. View quote
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