If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSlavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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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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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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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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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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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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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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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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