Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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