You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPeople do not die – they kill themselves.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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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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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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He who is brave is free.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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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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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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