There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAuditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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 sun shines even on the wicked.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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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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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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