Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
SENECA THE YOUNGEROne 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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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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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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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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