Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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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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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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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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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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