A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFour things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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