Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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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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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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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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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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