Time discovers truth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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