Seneca
Seneca
learn learning life
We learn not in the school, but in life
learning
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
learning
That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
example learning precept road short
The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
bitter calm cannot comfort mind
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business
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We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
choice necessity shall willing
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing
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We had reports of 8 to 10 inches on the Outer Banks and 4 to 6 inches in coastal counties,
blessing confidence source
There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self.
body home
This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly
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Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial