Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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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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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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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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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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