Seneca
Seneca
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Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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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 declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
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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.
charm conversation insidious love secrets
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
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
banks inches outer reports
We had reports of 8 to 10 inches on the Outer Banks and 4 to 6 inches in coastal counties,
acting complain days either lives ought procrastination spent though
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.
learn learning life
We learn not in the school, but in life
advice life terrify worth
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
gift gifts immortal life living philosophy
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy
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The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company
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Give yourself time and room; what reason could not avoid, delay has often cured
forgive forgiveness inhuman none
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none