The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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After death there is nothing.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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