Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Precepts 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.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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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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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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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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