There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrecepts 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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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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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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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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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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