Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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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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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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