You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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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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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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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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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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