A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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