Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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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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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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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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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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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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