Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGERConsider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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He 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.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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