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Seneca the Younger
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“Armies have endured all manner of want, have lived on roots, and have resisted hunger by means of food too revolting to mention. All this they have suffered to gain a kingdom, and—what is more marvellous—to gain a kingdom that will be another’s. Will any man hesitate to endure poverty, in order that he may free his mind from madness?”
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“If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.”
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“Leve aes alienum debitorem facit, grave inimicum.”
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“Prove your words by your deeds.”
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“quid est sapienta? semper idem velle atque idem nolle.”
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“Press on, therefore, as you have begun; perhaps you will be led to perfection, or to a point which you alone understand is still short of perfection.”
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“Nemo quam bene vivat sed quam diu curat, cum omnibus possit contingere ut bene vivant, ut diu nulli.”
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“It is indeed foolish to be unhappy now because you may be unhappy at some future time.”
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“You will thus understand that what you fear is either insignificant or short-lived.”
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“Mucius put his hand into the fire. It is painful to be burned; but how much more painful to inflict such suffering upon oneself!”
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“[Mucius] might have accomplished something more successful in that camp, but never anything more brave.”
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“It was a great deed to conquer Carthage, but a greater deed to conquer death.”
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“Illud autem ante omnia memento, demere rebus tumultum ac videre quid in quaque re sit: scies nihil esse in istis terribile nisi ipsum timorem.”
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“I may become a poor man; I shall then be one among many. I may be exiled; I shall then regard myself as born in the place to which I shall be sent. They may put me in chains. What then? Am I free from bonds now? Behold this clogging burden of a body, to which nature has fettered me! “I shall die,” you say; you mean to say “I shall cease to run the risk of sickness; I shall cease to run the risk of imprisonment; I shall cease to run the risk of death.”
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“I do not know whether I shall make progress; but I should prefer to lack success rather than to lack faith.”
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“You do not know where death awaits you; so be ready for it everywhere.”
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“Tu me' inquis 'mones? iam enim te ipse monuisti, iam correxisti? ideo aliorum emendationi vacas?' Non sum tam improbus ut curationes aeger obeam, sed, tamquam in eodem valetudinario iaceam, de communi tecum malo colloquor et remedia communico.”
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“Sola virtus praestat gaudium perpetuum, securum; etiam si quid obstat, nubium modo intervenit, quae infra feruntur nec umquam diem vincunt.”
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“You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.”
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“You must lay aside the burdens of the mind; until you do this, no place will satisfy you.”
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“Nam qui peccare se nescit, corrigi non vult.”
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“Magnus gubernator et scisso navigat velo.”
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“He who does not wish to die cannot have wished to live.”
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“I forbid you to be cast down or depressed. It is not enough if you do not shrink from work; ask for it.”
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“Would you know what makes men greedy for the future? It is because no one has yet found himself.”
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“Ideo pueris et sententias ediscendas damus et has quas Graeci chrias vocant, quia complecti illas puerilis animus potest, qui plus adhuc non capit. Certi profectus viro captare flosculos turpe est et fulcire se notissimis ac paucissimis vocibus et memoria stare: sibi iam innitatur. Dicat ista, non teneat; turpe est enim seni aut prospicienti senectutem ex commentario sapere. 'Hoc Zenon dixit': tu quid? 'Hoc Cleanthes': tu quid? Quousque sub alio moveris? impera et dic quod memoriae tradatur, aliquid et de tuo profer.”
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“Praeterea qui alium sequitur nihil invenit, immo nec quaerit.”
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“Quid ergo? non ibo per priorum vestigia? ego vero utar via vetere, sed si propiorem planioremque invenero, hanc muniam. Qui ante nos ista moverunt non domini nostri sed duces sunt. Patet omnibus veritas; nondum est occupata; multum ex illa etiam futuris relictum est.”
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“Amicitia semper prodest, amor aliquando etiam nocet”
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“You must die erect and unyielding.”
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“It is disgraceful, instead of proceeding ahead, to be carried along, and then suddenly, amid the whirlpool of events, to ask in a dazed way: “How did I get into this condition?”
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“It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great.”
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“Then it is that the height of unhappiness is reached, when men are not only attracted, but even pleased, by shameful things, and when there is no longer any room for a cure, now that those things which once were vices have become habits.”
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“Facis rem optimam et tibi salutarem, si, ut scribis, perseveras ire ad bonam mentem, quam stultum est optare, cum possis a te impetrare. Non sunt ad caelum elevandae inarms nee exorandus aedituus, ut nos ad aurem simulacri, quasi magis exaudiri possimus, admittat; Prope est a te deus, tecum est, intus est. Ita dico, Lucili: sacer intra nos spiritus sedet, malorum bonorumque nostrorum observator et custos...”
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“Non faciunt meliorem equum aurei freni.”
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“If you see a man who is unterrified in the midst of dangers, untouched by desires, happy in adversity, peaceful amid the storm, who looks down upon men from a higher plane, and views the gods on a footing of equality, will not a feeling of reverence for him steal over you, will you not say: “This quality is too great and too lofty to be regarded as resembling this petty body in which it dwells? A divine power has descended upon that man.”
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“No man ought to glory except in that which is his own.”
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“Rationale enim animal est homo.”
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“Very often the things that cost nothing cost us the most heavily; I can show you many objects the quest and acquisition of which have wrested freedom from our hands.”
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“You will have less money.” Yes, and less trouble. “Less influence.” Yes, and less envy.”
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“He that owns himself has lost nothing. But how few men are blessed with ownership of self!”
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“Is qui scit plurimum, rumor.”
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“Non refert quam multos sed quam bonos habeas.”
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“They are slaves,” people declare. Nay, rather they are men. “Slaves!” No, comrades. “Slaves!” No, they are unpretentious friends. “Slaves!” No, they are our fellow-slaves, if one reflects that Fortune has equal rights over slaves and free men alike.”
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“Vis tu cogitare istum quem servum tuum vocas ex isdem seminibus ortum eodem frui caelo, aeque spirare, aeque vivere, aeque mori! tam tu illum videre ingenuum potes quam ille te servum.”
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“sic cum inferiore vivas quemadmodum tecum superiorem velis vivere.”
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“I propose to value them according to their character, and not according to their duties. Each man acquires his character for himself, but accident assigns his duties.”
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“He is a slave.” His soul, however, may be that of a freeman. “He is a slave.” But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”
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“Would you really know what philosophy offers to humanity? Philosophy offers counsel.”
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“Show me that the good in life does not depend upon life’s length, but upon the use we make of it; also, that it is possible, or rather usual, for a man who has lived long to have lived too little. Say to me when I lie down to sleep: “You may not wake again!” And when I have waked: “You may not go to sleep again!” Say to me when I go forth from my house: “You may not return!” And when I return: “You may never go forth again!”
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