A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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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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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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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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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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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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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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