A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGod is near you, is with you, is inside you.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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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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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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