There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNot how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Men learn while they teach.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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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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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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