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The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company. — Seneca.

Men's language is as their lives. — Seneca The Younger

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none. — Seneca The Younger

And when the soul has yielded to pleasure, its functions and actions grow weak, and any undertaking comes from a nerveless and unsteady source. — Seneca.

For that is the people's verdict, but wise men on the whole reject the people's decrees. — Seneca.

Everyone goes out of life just as if he had but lately entered. — Seneca.

And there's no state of slavery more disgraceful than one which is self-imposed. — Seneca.

If you would escape your troubles, you need not another place but another personality. — Seneca.

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound. — Seneca The Younger

So you must match time's swiftness with your speed in using it, and you must drink quickly as though from a rapid stream that will not always flow. — Seneca.

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit. — Seneca The Younger

In times of happiness, no point in shaking things up.
But in a time of crisis, the safest thing is change. — Seneca.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity. — Seneca The Younger

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. — Seneca.

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it ... — Suzanne Collins

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame. — Seneca The Younger

It's in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein. — Seneca The Younger

He who is everywhere is nowhere. — Seneca The Younger

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work. — Seneca The Younger

Everything hangs on one's thinking. — Seneca The Younger

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it. — Seneca The Younger

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind. — Seneca The Younger

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's. — Seneca The Younger

Crime oft recoils upon the author's head. — Seneca The Younger

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude. — Seneca The Younger

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself. — Seneca The Younger

Calamity is virtue's opportunity. — Seneca The Younger

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs. — Seneca The Younger

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit. — Seneca The Younger

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. — Seneca The Younger

Possession of a friend should be with the spirit: the spirit's never absent: it sees daily whoever it likes. — Seneca.

Lay hold of today's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow's. While we are postponing, life speeds by. 3. — Seneca.

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable. — Seneca The Elder

A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller. — Seneca The Younger

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride — Seneca The Younger

One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend. — Seneca The Younger

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own. — Seneca The Younger

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses. — Seneca The Younger

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them. — Seneca The Younger

Seneca's version of that Stoicism is antifragility from fate. No downside from Lady Fortuna, plenty of upside. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly. — Seneca The Younger

No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day. — Seneca The Younger

No one can merely go wrong by himself, but he must become both the cause and adviser of another's wrong doing. — Seneca.

Fortune recently took away her mother, but your love will mean that she will only grieve over her mother's loss but not suffer for it. — Seneca.

Plague on it! what madness this is, to punish one's self because one is unfortunate, and not to lessen, but to increase one's ills! — Seneca.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow. — Seneca The Younger

we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed, Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands. — Seneca.

No one is the object of another man's contempt, unless he is first the object of his own. — Seneca.

A man's peace of mind does not depend upon Fortune; for, even when angry she grants enough for our needs. — Seneca.

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already. — Seneca The Younger

It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles. — Seneca The Younger

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell. — Seneca The Younger

it is better to understand the balance-sheet of one's own life than of the corn trade. — Seneca.

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation. — Seneca The Younger

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it. — Seneca The Younger

Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief. — Seneca The Younger

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint? — Seneca The Younger

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours. — Seneca The Younger

No man's good by accident. Virtue has to be learnt. — Seneca.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable. — Seneca The Younger

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to. — Seneca The Younger

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. — Seneca.

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca — Seneca.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich. — Seneca The Younger

It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune. — Seneca The Elder

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. — Seneca.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult. — Seneca.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her. — Seneca The Younger

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most. — Seneca The Younger

Every new beginning comes from other beginning's end. — Seneca.

No one willingly reverts to the past unless all his actions have passed his own censorship, which is never deceived. — Seneca.

...nothing happens to the wise man against his expectation. — Seneca.

Wisdom comes to no one by chance. — Seneca The Younger

The happy life is a life that is in harmony with its own nature. — Seneca.

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel. — Seneca.

We live among wicked man through our own wickedness. One thing alone can bring us peace, an agreement to treat one another with kindness. — Seneca.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse. — Seneca The Younger

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching. — Seneca The Younger

It is for the superfluous we sweat. — Seneca The Younger

How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide! — Oriana Fallaci

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self. — Seneca The Younger

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts. — Seneca The Younger

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then? — Seneca.

You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough. — Seneca.

It's easier to get philosophers to agree than clocks. — Seneca.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours. — Seneca The Younger

Forgive that you may be forgiven. — Seneca The Younger

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. — Seneca.

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. — Seneca The Younger

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil. — Seneca The Younger

It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it. — Seneca.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash. — Seneca The Younger

I can show you a philtre, compounded without drugs, herbs, or any witch's incantation: 'If you want to be loved, love. — Seneca.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

O how many noble deeds of women are lost in obscurity! — Seneca.

A man's past is forever set in stone. There — Seneca.

Chance makes a plaything of a man's life. — Seneca The Younger

Humanity is the quality which stops one being arrogant towards one's fellows, or being acrimonious. — Seneca.