Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.
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The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
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Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
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Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
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He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
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Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.
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Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
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There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
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Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
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Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.