Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Every journey has an end.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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