There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhile crime is punished it yet increases.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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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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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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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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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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