Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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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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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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He who is brave is free.
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