Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
SENECA THE YOUNGERMen learn while they teach.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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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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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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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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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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