The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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He who is brave is free.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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