The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Life without literary studies is death.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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