How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAuditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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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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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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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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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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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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