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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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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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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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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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.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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