"You talk one way, you live another."
Philosopher, Statesman
Seneca the Younger was a Roman Stoic philosopher known for his writings on ethics and personal conduct, particularly in his work 'Letters to Lucilius'.
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"You talk one way, you live another."
"One must steer, not talk."
"The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning."
"I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business."
"It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity."
"Apples taste sweetest when they're going."
"There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing."
"Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent"
"Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us."
"True love hates and will not bear delay."
"You roll my log, and I will roll yours."
"Our fears vanish as the danger approaches."
"Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law"
"Life without literary studies is death."
"We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us."
"Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure."
"Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . ."
"The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy."
"That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity."
"The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth."