Seneca ( 10 of 106 )
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.
This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes read more
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
We learn not in the school, but in life
We learn not in the school, but in life
Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you read more
Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the read more
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and read more
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands
Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
