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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTime hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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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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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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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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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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