On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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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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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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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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