No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSet aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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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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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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