The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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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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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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After death there is nothing.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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He who is brave is free.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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