No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo the stars through difficulties.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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If you judge, investigate.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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