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 YOUNGERWe become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Time discovers truth.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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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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Luck never made a man wise.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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