Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
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Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
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What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
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It is opportunity that makes the thief.
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As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.
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Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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No one can have all he desires.
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It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.
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The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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The miserable are sacred.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
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Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.