Be harsh with yourself at times.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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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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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Men learn while they teach.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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