Time discovers truth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhen once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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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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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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