The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPersistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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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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It 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.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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