Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccess is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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