For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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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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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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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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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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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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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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