Life is long if you know how to use it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Men learn while they teach.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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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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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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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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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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