In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNot how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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After death there is nothing.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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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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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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