No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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