It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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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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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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One hand washes the other.
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