The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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