Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet the weary at length possess quiet rest.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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One hand washes the other.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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