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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe young man must store up, the old man must use.
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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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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His head was turned by too great success.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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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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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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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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