There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERProsperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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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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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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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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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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