When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA great fortune is a great slavery.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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