Luck never made a man wise.
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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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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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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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Every journey has an end.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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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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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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