The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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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 another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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