If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhen you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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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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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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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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