Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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