Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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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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The part of life which we really live is short.
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