Seneca the Younger Quotes
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As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.
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It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
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It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
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People do not die - they kill themselves.
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Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
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You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
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That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.
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This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.
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The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
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Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.
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The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.