Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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He who is brave is free.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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