Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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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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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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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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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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