Seneca

Seneca

"Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge."
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"Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge."
Seneca
"How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-preservation in continual and very rapid change."
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"The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them."
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"It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and--what will perhaps make you wonder more--it takes the whole of life to learn how to die."
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"Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things—eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies—since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn."
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"…because it is natural to touch more often the parts that hurt."
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"It is quality rather than quantity that matters."
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"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way."
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"He who is brave is free"
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"How closely flattery resembles friendship! It not only apes friendship, but outdoes it, passing it in the race; with wide-open and indulgent ears it is welcomed and sinks to the depths of the heart, and it is pleasing precisely wherein it does harm."
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"f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen."
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"distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)"
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"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
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"The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time."
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"It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it."
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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 inter-twined 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?"
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"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not."
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"Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ..."
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"I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes."
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"errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical."
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