To the stars through difficulties.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Time discovers truth.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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