The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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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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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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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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If you judge, investigate.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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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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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 willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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