Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe world itself is too small for the covetous.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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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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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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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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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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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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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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