What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERChoose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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What 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.
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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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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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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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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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