To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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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.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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