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.
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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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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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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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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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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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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