I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREpileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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There 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.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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