Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial
Seneca
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Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a
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UNKNOWN A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of p...
JAMES S.A. COREY Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
SENECA Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial charges and blamed it on the cost of livin...
UNKNOWN If anybody can do it, Seneca can. Without question, Michael Vick is the best athlete in the NFL.
GRANT WISTROM Retirement is when you stop living at work, and start working at living.
ANONYMOUS This review is from: On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback)
"I know t...
AMAZON REVIEWER (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his
government is groping.
BEN JONSON I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It is the simple things that are in the ocean. People think that simple things are on the seashore, ...
C. JOYBELL C. There is no living being without the spark of love; even a mad man loves something or somebody.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA They may not know each other to say it, but it was never hidden. How much ever they hated each other...
PARUL WADHWA Bill Barrett is a living legend and we wish him well in this third retirement.
GREG SCHNACKE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. She wrote to her sister about the glories of living here. Those letters were selling Florida.
DEBI MURRAY The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
COURTNEY LOVE Love in capital letters is important. It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeli...
MIREILLE MATHIEU Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK You don't know what you don't know
JEFF CARTER Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.
TAHEREH MAFI Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjo...
KATHY GOTTBERG Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II
this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE This living light found in books and letters showing us the mind and heart of God; love written in l...
JOHN M SHEEHAN Seneca Wallace is a good player. He just hasn't played.
MIKE HOLMGREN A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of
shadows.
HENRY WARD BEECHER I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal.
SUZE ORMAN When you feel strapped and are living from paycheck to paycheck, saving money for anything - particu...
BETH KOBLINER While this group is still a few years away from retirement, this plus the fact that Americans are li...
KEVIN GIDDIS The bottom line is Americans are living longer in retirement, saving less or not at all. They live b...
GEORDIE CROSSAN I love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die.
CELIA CRUZ This is a burial by the people, not a party.
ZORAN ANDJELKOVIC Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
STEPHEN KING Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or ca...
ROXANE GAY A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communi...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for ...
ALAIN DE BOTTON Americans should be able to enjoy a secure retirement after a lifetime of hard work. But too many Am...
THOMAS E. PEREZ A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love lett...
THICH NHAT HANH You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of ...
M. SCOTT PECK Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE Living life without a goal is like sailing the sea without a compass.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Living life without a goal is like sailing the sea without a compass.
AULIQ-ICE I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
TAMMARA WEBBER Every living thing requires love to survive for without it, we die.
SANJO JENDAYI I think that there are probably people not ready for retirement living but not ready to take care of...
CATHY ARNETT A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Carl Junction and Seneca is a big rivalry. I quickly found that out.
BRAD SHORTER We are asking that this money (cost-of-living adjustment) come out of the general fund and not the t...
BRENDA FAUST Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.
JULIA ROBERTS As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
JONATHAN SWIFT With a twenty-year horizon until retirement, she could invest in a rental property with a 15-year mo...
DAVID R. BERGMANN Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Many people think that love represents chains, bondage, the opposite of freedom. But people who beli...
C. JOYBELL C. THE BARROW
In this high field strewn with stones
I walk by a green mound,
It...
ANTHONY THWAITE Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
J.G. BALLARD But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.
LEMONY SNICKET I will love you if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else your co-star, per...
LEMONY SNICKET I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and a...
LEMONY SNICKET I will love you with no regard to the actions of our enemies or the jealousies of actors. I will lov...
LEMONY SNICKET And oft the pangs of absence to remove
By letters, soft interpreters of love.
MATTHEW PRIOR At one time, most people didn't live long enough to enjoy their retirement. Now, people are living l...
HOWARD STONE Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
J.K. ROWLING One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
APHRA BEHN Almost every day, for years now, he has taken pen in hand to write to her. He has no names or addres...
ALESSANDRO BARICCO It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love ...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV And this has nothing to do with love letters.
DEAN SCHNURR We love to include letters and cards, because no matter what we send them, ... the letters and the c...
JEANNETTE MANCHESTER She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS I've been reading their love letters, and I can tell you that every one of us would want to have a l...
LISA TANZARELLO I will be forever grateful for your presence in my life. I am a much better human being because of y...
EMMA FORREST If life is a bowl of cherries, what's inside of it?
JOSH STERN You learned right away that applause sounds like love.
AVA DELLAIRA I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unl...
JERRY SPINELLI
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SENECA Suppose we've chosen the wrong god
SENECA I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
SENECA Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers
SENECA Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
SENECA Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
SENECA Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
SENECA Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars
SENECA It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
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SENECA What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
SENECA If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness
SENECA All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.
SENECA He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
SENECA He who profits by a crime commits it
SENECA You are your choices.
SENECA Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
SENECA This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.
SENECA A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
SENECA Every guilty person is his own hangman.
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SENECA A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another
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SENECA Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters
SENECA It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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SENECA We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
SENECA He who is brave is free.
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SENECA It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture tha...
SENECA It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have found it.
SENECA Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow
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SENECA I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and t...
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SENECA Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
SENECA If you judge, investigate
SENECA He is most powerful who has power over himself
SENECA Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tel...
SENECA A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands
SENECA Time discovers truth.
SENECA No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
SENECA Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
SENECA While we teach, we learn.
SENECA Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
SENECA Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then ...
SENECA Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both exist...
SENECA Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but wh...
SENECA To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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SENECA It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
SENECA There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor g...
SENECA Abstinence is easier than temperance
SENECA Whom they have injured, they also hate.
SENECA While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the whe...
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SENECA Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.
SENECA It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die
SENECA The best ideas are common property.
SENECA The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the int...
SENECA Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
SENECA Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
SENECA Speech is the mirror of the mind.
(Imago Animi Sermo Est)
SENECA It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
SENECA You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
SENECA Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
SENECA It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to cont...
SENECA Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the sou...
SENECA If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul...
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SENECA Life without the courage for death is slavery
SENECA The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie...
SENECA The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
SENECA All cruelty springs from weakness.
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SENECA There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courag...
SENECA A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do...
SENECA Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it.
SENECA What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
SENECA It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man...
SENECA I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for...
SENECA To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, an...
SENECA There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.
SENECA Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
SENECA We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest...
SENECA The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the pres...
SENECA Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of app...
SENECA What once were vices are manners now.
SENECA If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
SENECA There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.
SENECA While we are postponing, life speeds by.
SENECA Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
SENECA Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
SENECA It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things...
SENECA Everything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.)
SENECA It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in exces...
SENECA Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
SENECA Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.
SENECA What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetu...
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SENECA Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
SENECA That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
SENECA To greed, all nature is insufficient.
SENECA Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.
SENECA We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passi...
SENECA We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passi...
SENECA We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live wit...
SENECA We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
SENECA Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjo...
SENECA To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be i...
SENECA There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace in it.
SENECA The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
SENECA The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
SENECA The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
SENECA The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
SENECA The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
SENECA Injustice never rules forever
SENECA A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
SENECA Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man...
SENECA It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
SENECA It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.
SENECA He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
SENECA Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it show...
SENECA If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
SENECA Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
SENECA If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
SENECA If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him.
SENECA I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
SENECA I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.
SENECA He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
SENECA He who spares the wicked injures the good.
SENECA Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
SENECA Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
SENECA Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
SENECA Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
SENECA Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then ...
SENECA Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before...
SENECA As was his language so was his life.
SENECA An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
SENECA All art is an imitation of nature.
SENECA One should count each day a separate life.
SENECA One hand washes the other.
(Manus Manum Lavet)
SENECA Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
SENECA Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
SENECA No one can wear a mask for very long.
SENECA Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
SENECA Life without the courage for death is slavery.
SENECA Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
SENECA Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
SENECA It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
SENECA It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
SENECA It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
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SENECA It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
SENECA It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right ...
SENECA It better befits a man to laugh than to lament over it.
SENECA It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.
SENECA Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've be...
SENECA For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless...
SENECA It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
SENECA Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
SENECA There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
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SENECA What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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SENECA This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly
SENECA Life is warfare.
SENECA They that mistake life's accessories for life itself are like them that go too fast in a maze: their...
SENECA I truly enjoy no more of the world's good things than what I willingly distribute to the needy
SENECA A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught
SENECA What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choi...
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