I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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