
Top 20 Lucilius Quotes
#1. Who can doubt, my dear Lucilius, that life is the gift of the immortal gods, but that living well1 is the gift of philosophy?
Seneca.
#2. I wish Lucilius you had been so happy as to have taken this resolution long ago I wish we had not deferred to think of an happy life till now we are come within light of death But let us delay no longer
Seneca.
#3. Above all, my dear Lucilius, make this your business: learn how to feel joy.
Seneca.
#4. It is clear to you, I know, Lucilius, that no one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable.
Seneca.
#5. Therefore, my dear Lucilius, begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. He who has thus prepared himself, he whose daily life has been a rounded whole, is easy in his mind;
Seneca.
#8. It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
Beatrix Potter
#9. The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.
Isobelle Carmody
#10. Internal and external action are inseparable: imagination, interpretation, and will are internal processes in external action.
Lev S. Vygotsky
#11. A man knows if he loves a woman in three months, if not three days, but what he desires in three hours, if that is all he desires, he should never get from you in three hundred years.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#12. Then my rescuer turned to look at me and I felt his eyes reach right down into my guts and tangle them up in knots.
With that look I knew I'd jumped straight from the kettle into the fire.
April White
#13. When we were children, there was a silent part of us watching the child. When we were adolescents, there was that same witness watching the adolescent. Middle age, and so on. Every one, now and again, has discovered the self, the one who is watching.
Deepak Chopra
#14. We can walk when we want to, we can build many things, but if we do not witness to Jesus Christ then it doesn't matter. We might become a philanthropic NGO but we wouldn't be the Church, the Bride of the Lord.
Pope Francis
#15. You can put them in a room with QVC and they'll be as happy as clams." "QVC?" the demons said in unison. Simi looked at her watch. "It Diamonique time, too. Where's a TV?" Sin
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#16. If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.
Stephen Jay Gould
#17. Eventually, when the first phase of the process ended, she began to cry. She cried quietly, even silently, burring her face in her hands, her shoulder quivering, as if she wanted to be sure that no one else in the world could tell that she was crying.
Haruki Murakami
#18. You know, nice guys finish last, don't you?"
"I guess I'll finish last.
Jalpa Williby
#19. Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.
Ronald Reagan
#20. Technique is the test of sincerity.
Ezra Pound
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