No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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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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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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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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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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