If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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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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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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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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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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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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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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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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