Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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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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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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