Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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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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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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