There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAfter death there is nothing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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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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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Time discovers truth.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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