Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIndolence is stagnation; employment is life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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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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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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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.
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