If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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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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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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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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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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