A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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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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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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