Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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It 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.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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