The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhatever begins, also ends.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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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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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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