Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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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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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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If 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.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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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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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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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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