Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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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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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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