Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...

~ Seneca

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I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespeare by heart, but I mess up the laundry, don’t answer my phone and blame the world when something goes wrong. I think I have a dream, but most of the days I’m still sleeping. The grass is cut. It smells like strawberries. Today I finished four books and cleaned my drawers. Do you believe in a God? Can I tell you about Icarus? How he flew too close to the sun?I want to make coming home your favourite part of the day. I want to leave tiny little words lingering in your mind, on nights when you’re far away and can’t sleep. I want to make everything around us beautiful; make small things mean a little more. Make you feel a little more. A little better, a little lighter. The coffee is warm, this cup is yours. I want to be someone you can’t live without.I want to be someone you can’t live without.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole

~ Seneca

Seneca Goodness Oneness Seneca

Those who wish their virtue to be advertised are not striving for virtue but for renown. Are you not willing to be just without being renowned? Nay, indeed you must often be just and be at the same time disgraced. And then, if you are wise, let ill repute, well won, be a delight. Farewell.

~ Seneca

Seneca Renown Seneca Virtue

...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.

~ Seneca

Seneca Blood Blushing Seneca

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.

~ Seneca

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All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.

~ Seneca

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