Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Time discovers truth.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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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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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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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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