We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREvery journey has an end.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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