Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERStudy rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLight is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA THE YOUNGERReason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIn the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe harsh with yourself at times.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDesultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDemand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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