No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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