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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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