As long as you live, learn how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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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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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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