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!
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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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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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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