Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
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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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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
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He who is everywhere is nowhere.
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What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
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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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... 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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Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?
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Everything may happen.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.
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Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.
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The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
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Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.