"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."

Delight, Statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."

William Blake, English Poet

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"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

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"And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same."

Norman McLaren, Scottish Artist

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"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

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"The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan)."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing."

Austin Dobson, English Celebrity

Delight, Night, Sense

"I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not."

Henry Alford, English Clergyman

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"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"

Edmund Spenser, English Poet

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"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination."

Mencius, Chinese Philosopher

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"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"

Life

"It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth."

Ethics

"And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long " he has existed long. For what if you should think that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept hither and thither by a succession of winds that raged from different quarters, had been driven in a circle around the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about."

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"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."

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"It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it."

Time

"For greed all nature is too little."

Nature

"It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so, we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully."

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"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."

"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

"And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same."

"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."

"The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan)."

"Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing."

"I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not."

"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"

"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes."

"There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination."

Explore more quotes by Seneca

"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"

"It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth."

"Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them."

"Speech is the index of the mind."

"If you are surprised at the number of our maladies count our cooks."

"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."

"It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it."

"For greed all nature is too little."

"It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so, we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully."