If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe worse a person is the less he feels it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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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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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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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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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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