Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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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 chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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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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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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