Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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