Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
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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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It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
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We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.
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The best ideas are common property.
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
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He who is everywhere is nowhere.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
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He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
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However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
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... frugality makes a poor man rich.
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He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
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When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?