Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb
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That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.
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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
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A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"
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An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
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The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.
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He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
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Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
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Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.
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To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
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It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.