If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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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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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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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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