The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA great fortune is a great slavery.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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If you judge, investigate.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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