Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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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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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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