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Seneca Quotes

«Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: at leisure, burial, leisure, literature
«Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.»
Author: Seneca | About: Honor | Keywords: grateful, honorable
«Death? 'Tis one of life's duties»
Author: Seneca | About: Death and dying
«He who profits by a crime commits it»
Author: Seneca | About: Crime | Keywords: commits, profits
«We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.»
Author: Seneca | About: Adversity, Appreciation | Keywords: appreciation, destroys, wiser
«True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model»
Author: Seneca | About: Wisdom | Keywords: departing, model, molding, moldings
«The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future»
«We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than reality»
Author: Seneca | About: Fear | Keywords: fanciest, fancy, frightened, spring, troubles
«Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.»
Author: Seneca | About: Destiny | Keywords: along, drags, drag in, drag out, fate, leads, unwilling
«We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.»