It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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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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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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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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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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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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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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