Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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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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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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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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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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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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