If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Men learn while they teach.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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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 customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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