As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is quality rather than quantity that matters.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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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!
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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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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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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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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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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