Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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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 is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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He who is brave is free.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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