If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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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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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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