If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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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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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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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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After death there is nothing.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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