If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHis head was turned by too great success.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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I 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.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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