There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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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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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Every journey has an end.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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