You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who has great power should use it lightly.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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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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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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