Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf 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.
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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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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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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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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One hand washes the other.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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